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Object NameFragment with Bull's Skull

Made FromGlass

Date99 BCE-99 CE

Techniquecast, lathe-cut, polished, wheel-cut

SizeOverall H: 4.8 cm

Accession Number66.1.142

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

Roman Empire; probably Rome

Physical DescriptionTranslucent emerald-green glass, bubbly with thin iridescent film and patches of light brown weathering crust flaking off; cast, lathe-cut and polished with additional wheel-cutting. Fragment preserves horizontal handle cut on the upper surface in the shape of a bucranium or bull's skull draped with a garland which flows down either side in a gentle curve and out along the rim of the vessel to form a more substantial handle support. The horizontal rim flares out into a rounded band which has been cut on the upper surface by two deep lathe-cut grooves leaving a high ridge in relief between the two and accenting the circumference; the profile moves in horizontally and the preserved surface retains a wheel-cut garland parts of which may have been filled with a contrasting colored glass past. The underside of the rim is concave as far as preserved.
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